Peter Fontaine, co-chair of Cozen O’Connor’s Utility, Environmental & Energy Practice Group, was interviewed by NPR on Wednesday, December 4, 2013, about SB 411, a bill currently in committee in the Pennsylvania Senate that encourages greater use of acid water from coal mining to extract natural gas. Pete offers his opinion on the bill in StateImpact, a project of NPR member stations dedicated to examining how state policy and issues affect people and communities, stating that “this [amended] bill would make it clear that a natural gas producer who uses that water to develop an unconventional natural gas well is not going to incur liability for the treatment of the original source of water.”

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